Ebeats $77.77 contest nearing it's end, scj already claiming victory

Posted by bougyman on Monday April 11, 2011 @10:51PM
from the rubyists.github.com dept.

http://rubyists.github.com/2011/04/11/ebeats-implementations-competition-scj-owns.html

scj is claiming victory already. With only 4 days to go, does anyone wan't to take him down?

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Re:Ebeats $77.77 contest nearing it's end, scj already claim... by count on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @12:40AM (#2435927)

If I'm going to learn to renumber my whole day anyway, why not just switch to UTC and preserve hundreds of years of convention in notation and utility?

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Re:Ebeats $77.77 contest nearing it's end, scj already claim... by YorickPeterse on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @03:43AM (#2436305)

UTC does not address the whole issue of different timezones and such which ebeats and swatch internet time do.

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Re:Ebeats $77.77 contest nearing it's end, scj already claim... by Klinky on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @08:02AM (#2436780)

The same problems still exist with ebeats. How do I know if 900 ebeats is the middle of the night or middle of the day for a specific country? I don't know until I convert it to their local time. The only advantage I can see is that you can display a universal time code with only three digits, saving space on a small watch face.

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Re:Ebeats $77.77 contest nearing it's end, scj already claim... by bougyman on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @03:49PM (#2438888)

it took less than a week to 'know' the time in beats. we've use this to coordinate time on our team, spread from Texas to EU to Japan.

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